Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] it [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I promised to give it the fifty-one hours , so that 's , let me see , forty-five left . |
| 2 | They tried to keep it a secret but you ca n't keep secrets long in television . ’ |
| 3 | We tried to make it the best school , and it was an outstanding girls ' school . " |
| 4 | Laura , having grasped the necessity of a calm private life for herself , tried to make it an attainable goal for all through her products . |
| 5 | TWO schoolboy boxers , Joe Ainscough and Tony Maguire , helped to make it a successful night for Kirkdale ABC by outpointing their opponents , J.Addison ( Tuebrook ) and A.Khaliq ( Bradford ) respectively , at their club 's final show of the season at The Mons , Bootle . |
| 6 | They even had a bridesmaid , Janice MacMillan 's daughter , who helped to make it a real white wedding . |
| 7 | Teachers Sarah , Caroline , Else and Wendy send a big ‘ Thank You ’ to everyone who supported their first ever Rally and helped to make it a big success — they are actually thinking of a second one this year ! |
| 8 | And the massive Independent Television outside broadcast unit ensemble helped to make it a busy day at Horsted Keynes with the Bluebell already geared up that day for the official launch of the Southern Q1 they have restored on behalf of the National Railway Museum . |
| 9 | There vas something official about it , as if it were a guard-dog or sentinel , on the constant qui vive behind its glass eyes , taking turn and turn about with the real house-dog , and the basket of flowers was stuck in its mouth in an attempt to disarm , an accessory borrowed to lend it a harmless look . |
| 10 | Glasgow was a unique case and a powerful argument now existed to make it a special case . |
| 11 | Norfolk-born Mavis McKechnie , 71 , of Mill House , Wissington , near Nayland , has wanted to try the walk for some time and decided to give it a serious purpose . |
| 12 | When he opened it moths flew out and he had to give it a good clean to get rid of the cobwebs and years of dust that had settled inside . |
| 13 | Must remember that phrase : he could see it had struck and it struck him too : he paused to give it the silent applause of a mute punctuation . |
| 14 | So she had to do it the slow way . |
| 15 | Yes , y yes , you , you were , you 'd sort of passed all your exams so yo th they sort of had to make it a little bit easier . |
| 16 | He hoped to make it a fitting swan-song . |
| 17 | Established media groups like Hachette , publishers of Elle magazine , failed to make it a commercial success . |
| 18 | The magazine was in trouble long before David Thomas and his young guns attempted to give it a lifesaving bypass . |
| 19 | Following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster in the Soviet Union in that year [ see p. 34460 ] , the North-Rhine Westphalia administration refused to give it the necessary licence to operate [ see also p. 34444 ] . |
| 20 | We just wanted to give it a few years to see what would happen , concentrating on what we hoped would come together some day . |
| 21 | He wanted to give it a space-age look so , apparently , he went to one of the companies here which specialises in metal research for NASA . ’ |
| 22 | Choosing what to include took some time , though I wanted to give it an artistic flavour . ’ |